Jane Austen's classic tale of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who, when they are deprived of their family inheritance, leave their Sussex home for a new life in Devonshire.

When two sisters appear to be deserted by the young men they had intended to marry, the stage is set for a delicious comedy of manners that not only showcases Austen's perception, humor and incomparable prose, but offers a splendid glimpse of upper and middle-class English society of the early 19th-century.